here is mutual benefit for employers and workers when workers improve their skills beyond the minimum requirements for their position—a fact not lost on employers, many of who are willing to provide education and training ...

The Ray Marshall Center at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas-Austin is conducting a multi-method evaluation of Project GROW, including implementation/process, outcomes, net impacts, ...

For more than fifteen years, Travis County has invested between $1-2.5 million in workforce development programs for disadvantaged residents. The purpose of the evaluation is to examine outcomes and impacts for participants ...

A Ray Marshall Center research team, led by Dr. Christopher King and Dr. Kelly Mikelson, conducted research for the Texas Workforce Investment Council (TWIC) designed to assess currently available workforce supply/demand ...

In this report, we describe the recommended sectoral jobs strategy for parents served by the Community Action Project (CAP) of Tulsa County as a pilot initiative — now called CareerAdvance® — to be implemented starting in ...

Central Texas has a robust, dynamic, and unique set of workforce institutions — including Skillpoint Alliance (formerly Capital Area Training Foundation), Capital IDEA, and Austin Community College — that are the envy of ...

This report presents an overview of the current state of adult education in Tulsa and in the U.S., and highlights successful programs in the areas of GED/Adult Basic Education, ESL Education, and Developmental Education. ...

The report evaluates the first year implementation of CareerAdvance®, a pilot program conducted by the Community Action Project (CAP) of Tulsa County aimed at providing low-income parents of children enrolled in early ...

This report examines fundamental changes in the CareerAdvance® program that directly relate to the experience and progress of participants through July 2013 (the end of the fourth program year) and the recruitment of Cohort ...

This report examines changes in the CareerAdvance® program that directly relate to the experience and progress of participants through July 2014—the end of the fifth program year— and the recruitment of Cohort 10 in spring ...